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00:05The expectations were just through the roof when we used to get to a World Cup.
00:10That pressure, this is what comes if we're wearing the England shirt.
00:16You know, we got labelled like the golden generation or whatever you want to call us.
00:21We had a group of players who got picked to play for England who were trying to win.
00:26We had 11 top players in one team.
00:29Captains, winning Premier Leagues, winning Champions Leagues.
00:32We had the best of the best.
00:34In every position, David Beckham, Real Ferdinand, Stephen Jarre, Gary Neville, John Terry, Joe Cole, Ashi Cole, Frank Lampard, Michael
00:46Owen, Wayne Rooney.
00:49The yearning had been there for generations.
00:52Sinkland are out of the World Cup.
00:552006 could finally be our year.
00:57It was massive.
00:58Everyone goes on paper.
01:00That's the golden generation.
01:01And that's right.
01:04But in the World Cup, more or less you get a crisis every two or three days.
01:14Vardin Vardin Vardin was a shambles.
01:17The wives and girlfriends were as big of superstars as the players.
01:22Reporters, cameras everywhere.
01:26Victoria Beckham said that was my attention-seeking era.
01:30Victoria!
01:30Victoria!
01:31Some might say it was a distraction.
01:33It felt like their last chance for the golden generation.
01:38There was so many things that are just out of your control.
01:40This is a bad start for England.
01:42Why are they not quite gelling?
01:44We were in a desperation mode, hidden by ego.
01:47England down to ten men.
01:49Let's have a bit of positivity and get behind the team.
01:52But everyone was thinking, why is it not quite working?
01:57Twenty years on from the golden generation, I actually feel embarrassed when I say it.
02:03I'd love to know who was the one who came out with that first.
02:07Because you look back now and you go, that was fucking stupid.
02:13The golden generation.
02:15The golden generation.
02:28Now, one of the most lavish showbiz parties of the year
02:31is just getting underway.
02:33David and Victoria Beckham are hosting an extravaganza
02:36at their Hertfordshire home.
02:38It's a send-off for the England players before the World Cup.
02:42And our correspondent, Daniela Relf, is there now with some of the crowds.
02:46Daniela, what's happening?
02:482006 just seems like such a different time.
02:51It was pre-social media, pre-Instagram, pre-Tik-Tok.
02:55Newspapers ruled.
03:00It was a glorious, golden time for celebrity culture.
03:04Oasis picked up the best album, God.
03:07Right, who's first then?
03:08Hello.
03:09And he's blonde.
03:10Wasn't Bond dark-haired.
03:14Newspapers and magazines back in 2006
03:16were the only way to get the information on what was going on.
03:18Nice to see you.
03:20Reality television.
03:22Nuts magazine.
03:24He knew.
03:24Hello.
03:27I told you...
03:282006, it was our after-party in effect
03:31of the golden era of tabloid culture
03:33where it was really important
03:35to be on the front page of the Sun newspaper
03:38to be famous.
03:41Expected tonight at Beckingham Palace,
03:43at Beckham's home,
03:45is Robbie Williams,
03:46Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne,
03:47a few Spice Girls,
03:48and of course,
03:49most of the England World Cup squad.
03:51Oh, 2006.
03:54Star-studded, wasn't it?
03:55There was a lot of famous celebrities there.
03:57I know it was for good calls, right?
03:59It was for UNICEF.
04:00Yeah, I remember that.
04:04I remember the goodie bag was quite good.
04:06Back in the day,
04:07it was that Motorola flip phone,
04:08you know, the Razor or something like it was called.
04:10Then everybody was buzzing off that.
04:12There was just a lot going on,
04:14you know, to take it all in.
04:15I remember we all sat at tables
04:16and there was like six or eight people
04:18and it was all mixed up.
04:19You weren't just sat with your teammates.
04:20I'd just like to wish my teammates
04:23and our team and our country
04:25the best of luck for this World Cup.
04:34Yeah, Beck's was like Mr England then,
04:36do you know what I mean?
04:37Like, he was like the captain,
04:38he was the superstar,
04:40global icon.
04:41Oh.
04:44David Beckham was more than just a footballer.
04:52England had a team full of superstars.
04:56But David Beckham was the kind of person
04:58that sat between showbiz and sport.
05:02We used to footballers looking like footballers.
05:06He was this fantastically good-looking man
05:08who broke all the rules,
05:09had his hair in cornrows, wore a sarong.
05:12He was so well-connected,
05:13I remember seeing him on Elton John's yacht.
05:15And then there's Britain's most famous photograph
05:17and gossiped about the couple.
05:19Once he met Victoria Adams,
05:20who then became his wife, of course,
05:22they just became a brand.
05:25They became the sort of golden couple
05:28of football and music.
05:31I call him Golden Balls.
05:33He'd go to events with Posh Spice
05:35and be in the showbiz section.
05:37Every time he played,
05:37he was all over the back page.
05:39He would sell newspapers.
05:41You put Beckham on the front
05:41and you'll sell newspapers.
05:43Get you sexy, huh?
05:45Let's just put aside all that other stuff,
05:47the noise that came with him
05:48and the attention,
05:49which was ridiculous.
05:52Beyond that,
05:53he was a great footballer
05:54and he could do things
05:55that no one could do.
06:01England's footballers finally started
06:03their World Cup journey this morning.
06:05At Luton Airport,
06:06they were met by a crowd of fans,
06:08by a pastiche of Peter Crouch's
06:09now-famous robot dance
06:10and by a mood of unbridled optimism.
06:16They were called the Golden Generation
06:18because this felt like a real moment in time
06:20and it wasn't just the papers,
06:21because the whole country felt
06:22this was going to be special.
06:24And staying with the World Cup,
06:26as promised,
06:27we now have Embrace
06:28with the first ever airing
06:30on television anywhere
06:31of the official World Cup song
06:33World at Your Feet.
06:35These guys had what it took
06:37to win the World Cup.
06:39Just three days to go
06:40until the World Cup kicks off.
06:42This house on Wearside
06:43is simply one of many examples
06:45of World Cup fever.
06:47There was so much hype.
06:50Some stores have already sold out
06:51of England flags.
06:52Good morning, David.
06:53Who's going to win the World Cup?
06:55England.
06:55You get caught up in the wave.
06:59Come on, England.
06:59They can go all the way.
07:01They can win it.
07:01There was a huge surge
07:02of passion and interest in the team.
07:09I've taken time out of my busy schedule
07:11to wish England the very best of luck.
07:13In fact, I'm with a couple of the lads now,
07:15Peter Crouch and Wayne Rooney.
07:17But even I am now getting the World Cup fever.
07:19Three lions on the shirt, sir.
07:21Hi, Pete.
07:23Wayne.
07:24Hi, Wayne.
07:25With the players that we've got,
07:26I believe we can go all the way.
07:28Hundreds of fans came to Germany
07:30hoping to get their hands on tickets,
07:32no matter what the cost.
07:44That feeling was in the air
07:47before you left to go to Germany.
07:51You were really up.
07:53This was going to be our time.
07:57For all the reputation,
07:59for all England's history in the game,
08:01we'd only won one World Cup in 1966.
08:06And you can list the countless tournaments after that
08:10that England bowed out of.
08:12Usually raising expectations
08:14and then failing miserably.
08:19They're trying to call us the golden generation,
08:21but when you go through the Brazil team,
08:23you had Ronaldinho as a backup dancer to R9.
08:29France's team were stacked.
08:30Zidane, Henri, Vieira.
08:33Never mind the Germans as well.
08:37There's other nations.
08:39They expect to win that tournament,
08:41do you know what I mean?
08:42In a different way.
08:48You go into every tournament
08:50and say there's probably
08:52four or five teams that can win,
08:55and we were always one of the four or five.
08:58We've got to be behind you the whole time
09:00and I hope you stay until the very end.
09:04Welcome and please come in.
09:07The players were staying in a castle
09:10in the hills above Baden-Baden.
09:13And for the first time at a World Cup,
09:16all their wives and girlfriends were staying nearby
09:18at a hotel called Brenner's Park
09:20in the centre of Baden-Baden.
09:27Baden-Baden was a beautiful spa town.
09:29It was in the Black Forest.
09:32It was a very pedestrian, gentle town.
09:35The average age was about 74.
09:38I was one of the first show reporters out there.
09:41My brief largely was ignore the football,
09:43don't worry about what happens on the pitch.
09:44Focus entirely off the pitch.
09:50The big players and their wives and girlfriends
09:53coined the wags.
09:55We had Victoria Beckham,
09:57one-fifth of the world's most successful girl band.
10:00Cheryl Cole.
10:02Colleen McLaughlin, who is now obviously Rooney.
10:07Abby Clancy.
10:09Carly Zucker.
10:11Ellen Rivers.
10:12And then you had chief back, Nancy Delaglio,
10:16dating England's manager, Sven-Gorn Eriksson.
10:19You had the music stars.
10:21If you want to be my lover.
10:23The sports stars.
10:25And it all came together at one moment,
10:28in one village,
10:29with the backdrop of the biggest sporting event in the world.
10:33So it was like a lightning strike in a bottle.
10:44That summer was so, so hot.
10:46I remember arriving in Germany,
10:48and the first thing that happened is this German fan,
10:50he was just giving out free beers to everybody,
10:52and he's going,
10:53welcome to Germany.
10:54Welcome to Germany.
10:56Welcome to Germany.
10:57England fans were everywhere.
11:00All kind of thinking,
11:01this generation,
11:02they are such a good set of players.
11:04There's no way they ain't going to win.
11:12I've got a clip of your punditry.
11:15Oh, do you have to?
11:17Alan, I think we're always prone to over-hype the England team
11:20and say they've got a great chance to win it,
11:22but do you genuinely feel this time that the squad is stronger?
11:26I do, I do.
11:26I had a bit of a hair back then.
11:29I think the confidence is justified without a doubt.
11:32I would say the same thing if I remember the squad rightly.
11:38I genuinely thought that England could win it.
11:47Because of the calibre of players that England had,
11:50it felt as though they should stroll through the group.
11:56The big welcome to the World Cup 2006 for England.
12:07Paraguay, Trinidad and Sweden was quite favourable.
12:17It's always tricky, that first game, because you want to get off obviously to a good start.
12:24That's a free kick to England.
12:25Everybody at home is watching.
12:28Beckham on the ball.
12:41Three minutes into the game, England are making a statement already
12:44and you're thinking, this is it.
12:45This is the start of our World Cup tournament.
12:47This is the start of us scoring banks of goals.
12:59The way they started, you felt England might run away with the game,
13:02but it hasn't been that way.
13:03It was this magnificent start.
13:05And then he just fell away.
13:07Bonnet.
13:08Difficult ball for Robinson.
13:12It doesn't always click how you want it to click.
13:15And it was OK.
13:16Didn't really play well, first game of the tournament.
13:19Played in extremely hot conditions.
13:22The expectation was that we'd win comfortably.
13:29Do you remember some of the boos from the fans when you came on as a sub?
13:33Do you know what? I didn't.
13:34I remember people telling me my brother was in the crowd.
13:36Amidst that galaxy of stars,
13:39he'd kind of been singled out as a bad pick.
13:42I think a lot of that had to do with being born in Canada
13:45and playing in Germany.
13:47And nobody really got to see me play consistently.
13:50To have the opportunity to play for England,
13:52for me it was special.
13:54On by Gerrard.
13:55No real pattern to England at the moment.
13:57I don't think we played our vintage best,
13:59but we found a way to get a result.
14:02Victory in Frankfurt,
14:04but it was a really desperate battle at times
14:06in the second half to keep Paraguay at bay.
14:08I just think that we lost an opportunity
14:10to really send out a message that we really mean business.
14:12You know, we'd all love to go out there and win 3-4, 5-0,
14:15but as an England player,
14:16in that generation at that time,
14:18expectation and realism were two different things.
14:21Give us your verdict on that first England performance.
14:23Um, Christy Bourne, to be quite honest.
14:25Just a little bit flat, definitely.
14:27There was a disconnect pretty soon
14:29between the expectation and the level of performance.
14:33But for England, during the World Cup,
14:36the scrutiny is huge.
14:38How conscious are you that these next few weeks
14:41Svenja and Eriks will be remembered for whatever he does?
14:44Well, that's good.
14:45I hope so.
14:47I'm convinced that we will do very well in this World Cup.
14:50I always said it.
14:52The belief in the squad is enormously.
15:06After three weeks of searching,
15:08the Football Association has at last found someone
15:10to take on the job as England's coach.
15:11And it'll be the first time a foreigner
15:13takes charge of the national side.
15:15The Swedes, Sven Goranen...
15:17Half the country don't know you.
15:19Why have you taken the job?
15:21Very good.
15:23Sven felt like a real breath of fresh air.
15:26Good luck, Sven.
15:28Thank you very much.
15:29He was a very cool, calm guy,
15:30but he had this real fire inside him
15:32and he was really passionate about England winning.
15:35We were all really intrigued by him.
15:37And this was a winner, let's not forget.
15:39He'd won at every club he'd been at.
15:41He had the players.
15:44Yes, it is.
15:44He was someone who was going to make it all come together.
15:47Listen to this.
15:48Germany 1, England 5.
15:51Then he had this impossibly glamorous Italian girlfriend.
15:56I'm Nancy DeLoglio
15:58and I was called the first lady of English football.
16:08After the Queen and the Prime Minister,
16:11we were like on the third position in the country.
16:15So to imagine the scrutiny was amazing.
16:18Good morning.
16:19I have no more comments.
16:21You know, you talk about brand Beckham.
16:23I mean, it was brand Sven as well.
16:26Sven, Sven, Sven, go run there, Xen.
16:31He's a lovely gizzer, but don't forget that he's from Sweden.
16:35The media was so obsessed with Sven's private life,
16:38but the problem was there was always a scandal.
16:43Considering how sort of corporate and sophisticated he looked,
16:46he got himself into a huge amount of trouble.
16:48The FA was easily embarrassed, right, in those days.
16:52There was no doubt about that.
16:53But if you wanted somebody to cope with it,
16:56there wasn't anyone better than Sven Euron Eriksson.
17:01He handled it incredibly well.
17:04It's just a side shot, Steve.
17:07It doesn't bother me.
17:08And it didn't bother him.
17:10Good morning.
17:11It all started, of course, with Aweka Johnson.
17:13Good morning.
17:14She was very famous at the time and sort of national treasure.
17:16Stories emerged about him sort of wandering around her house in his towel.
17:20Read all about it on pages one, two, three, four.
17:22One of the lads, Max, delivered a double bed outside Soho Square.
17:28The whole thing had become a sort of bedroom romp, bedroom farce.
17:32And there was the FA secretary for Ria Alam.
17:35She was having a relationship with the chief executive of the football station
17:39while having an affair with Sven.
17:41Move out of the way, please.
17:43Hugh scrummaged this morning as the FA chairman attempted to get to the...
17:47After that, he was caught out by the fake sheikh.
17:51The fake sheikh.
17:52That was disaster.
17:55Had he been just a little more careful,
17:57Mr Eriksson could have avoided this latest controversy.
18:00The News of the World secretly recorded conversations with Eriksson
18:03after setting up a bogus business meeting in Dubai.
18:06The News of the World managed to get him to say some quite pointed things
18:09about England players and to talk about moving away from the England job.
18:14But what about the World Cup?
18:15Will you be staying with the England team after the World Cup, Sven?
18:18The FA had made the decision that it was time for him to leave his role.
18:21I've been asked to win the World Cup, and after that I've been asked to look after my life.
18:27The FA decided that Steve McLaren, Sven's assistant, would take over after the World Cup.
18:33We're looking forward to the challenge.
18:35Thank you very much, everybody.
18:37You know, the timing was all wrong.
18:41Ideally, you know, it wouldn't have been announced before.
18:45Steve, are you excited by the prospect?
18:47Sven was more uncomfortable about that than he showed at the time to most people.
18:53Morning.
18:54Morning, well, morning.
18:55It's afternoon.
18:57It was a little bit weird knowing that I had the job and I had six weeks with the players.
19:03But our sole focus was we never talked about anything else.
19:07But who do we play?
19:11Who have we got fit and what are the tactics?
19:14Right, let's prepare.
19:27In a World Cup group, you kind of need to at least win two games to get yourself through to
19:33the knockout stages.
19:35Trinidad and Tobago, this should be, on paper, an easy victory.
19:41For England.
19:42But, of course, a lot of that was slightly predicated on the fitness of Wayne Rooney.
19:48He picked up this injury before the World Cup.
19:51There were a lot of people pinning their hopes on him being fit.
19:55So Rooney on his way to the substitutes bench, but how soon will he come off it, I wonder?
20:00Yeah.
20:01You obviously know the pressure from the fans, from the media.
20:05We always go in believing we can win the World Cup, but my focus weren't really on, you know, we're
20:12going to go and win the World Cup.
20:13But my focus was, can I get fit to be there?
20:20I got injured towards the end of the season of Chelsea away.
20:28I knew straight away that broke my foot.
20:32An injury to Wayne Rooney with the World Cup just over a month away.
20:40I knew it was just going to be a matter of time to see if it healed or not.
20:44Go back, go back.
20:47Colleen, Colleen, how's Wayne?
20:49The level of mania about Rooney was something different.
20:53Show us what the bones were putting on.
20:54Most famous foot injury since Achilles took one in the heel.
20:58Just to wait, then hold plenty.
20:59Everyone was praying for Wayne's metatarsal to recover.
21:02Any news, Wayne?
21:04Just to wait.
21:05Good or bad news?
21:12It's incredible to say, but one player can make a difference.
21:18Wayne was the X Factor.
21:22Without a fit firing Wayne Rooney, our chances go down massively.
21:28But at the same time, he's that good, you can't not take him.
21:32Because he still could produce a moment.
21:38Gerrard.
21:38Oh, that's a decent ball.
21:41And it's David Beckham with Owen and Crouch in the centre.
21:44Here's Crouch!
21:48Not very fair on Peter Crouch to say this,
21:50but a lot of the supporters will be thinking,
21:51what would have happened if Rooney had been in that position?
21:56Which is why they're chanting his name, I guess.
21:58The longer it remained nil-nil,
22:01impatience and disappointment began to grow.
22:05Still England have to back into their own penalty area.
22:09Paul Robinson comes down, steady slide for the header.
22:12And off the line.
22:13Amazing clearance by John Terry.
22:16The draw here means that qualification is still in the balance.
22:23Sven, he engrossed himself in the game in such calmness.
22:29Most people, it's nil-nil.
22:32What are we going to do?
22:33We want to bring him, we want to do it.
22:35You want to, you know, and always up and down, it would be sad.
22:39Sit down, Stevie, sit down.
22:43I said, are you going to make any changes?
22:45No, not yet.
22:47No, OK.
22:48You want anybody warming up?
22:51Maybe him.
22:57The England fans, they wanted Rooney on.
23:01Rooney was the cavalry.
23:05The moment is here.
23:07Wayne Rooney, 47 days after breaking the net of Charlestown at Stamford Bridge.
23:13A recovery inside seven weeks.
23:21He, for England fans, he was the one.
23:25I actually forgot to come on and say that.
23:29England, within the first two or three minutes of Rooney coming on, look a different team.
23:34He was the missing link.
23:35It gave everybody just a bit of a lift.
23:42Lennon, good knock back to Beckham.
23:44Is the cross coming in?
23:46It is towards Peter Crouch.
23:48It's in.
23:50Relief at last.
23:52Redemption for England and Peter Crouch.
23:55With barely seven minutes to go.
24:00Gerrard.
24:01Oh, it's number two.
24:04Stephen Gerrard with a filter.
24:12Qualification is assured for Sven-Jur Eriksson.
24:15Six points from two games.
24:18It might be a matter of, never mind the performance, it's the result that counts.
24:23Everyone was looking at it thinking, why are they not quite jelly?
24:28That was when the criticism kind of started.
24:33Games at World Cup are difficult and you don't have a job, we won the game.
24:37But the reason why we were critical is that you had good players there who weren't producing their club form.
24:42It's coming!
24:44Football's coming!
24:45We brought on the Lennon, we brought on the Rooney.
24:47I'm not trying to be cliche, Lise, but you know we've done the business.
24:50When you're out there, I think it's very different to when you're at home.
24:54We don't get the constant media.
25:00Your thought is that we got through that one, didn't we?
25:03And you're happy.
25:09The media, the criticism, we were in a bubble.
25:13We just focused on the games and the tournament and trying to win.
25:24It's important that we have exclusive, the hotel, because, you know, England, it's extremely popular wherever we go to play.
25:32In the World Cup, we need privacy.
25:35I just remember it being in the middle of nowhere, right on top of this mountain.
25:40Views were unbelievable.
25:42The hotel we had to ourselves, peace and quiet.
25:48And kind of at the bottom of the mountain was Baden-Baden, wasn't it?
25:54What's happening here?
25:55Inside that shop?
25:57Yeah.
25:57Is Jorkor's wife.
25:59Oh, right.
25:59Yeah?
26:00Are you interested in that?
26:02No, not really.
26:04Baden-Baden was a shambles.
26:06Absolute shambles.
26:08The British press seems to be fascinated with these quacks thing.
26:12Is that correct?
26:13We're absolutely obsessed.
26:14They're on the front pages back home every day.
26:17The wives and girlfriends at the time became as big a superstars as the players.
26:21If this tournament was all about, you know, spending money, the wives and girlfriends of England would certainly be World
26:25Cup winners by now.
26:26Day by day, this poor spa town was being flooded by the world's media.
26:31Excuse me, are you a wag?
26:34Am I what?
26:35We like to know what they're spending, what they're eating, where they're drinking.
26:39This wag thing started in 2004.
26:44I hear you're planning a party for the girls tonight.
26:46I'm not planning any party.
26:47So 2006 was this flotion.
26:50The presence of the players' partners during a major tournament is a little unusual.
26:55English football has traditionally cut its stars away from family and friends.
26:59The reporters, cameras everywhere.
27:02You know this word wag?
27:03Are you one of them?
27:08It was very peculiar for this town.
27:12Spend it like Beckham.
27:13Are you getting out today to do any shopping?
27:15No, McDonald's again.
27:16McDonald's?
27:17Yes.
27:18They walked through the town of Baden-Baden.
27:21They seemed in a way to enjoy this.
27:26We were going out for the day.
27:28The change of scenery from being in the hotel every day, all day, 24 hours a day, right?
27:33There was paparazzi everywhere.
27:37We've been sat in a hotel room for five, six weeks.
27:39So having the opportunity to then connect to people that are so close to you is actually really important.
27:45I mean, it was great fun for the media.
27:47For us, it was a summer holiday.
27:51One paparazzo came with a paraglider from the Mount Mercur to have shots with wags in their bikinis at the
28:00pool.
28:01We were young.
28:02We didn't have kids.
28:04We were making loads and loads of money.
28:06These women were great fun.
28:09And every time they printed them, people wanted more and more and more.
28:12And it became a story in itself.
28:14It's just a bit surreal.
28:16The funny thing about it is they're actually getting more coverage than the actual football team.
28:19Nobody's talking about the players.
28:20Here we are talking about what the wives are getting up to.
28:24Meanwhile, the England team were all locked away and not talking to anyone.
28:27So you could absolutely see why this story grew.
28:31That celebrity culture did begin to undermine the team and its performances.
28:37It was kind of a different world.
28:39And we kind of laugh a little bit when we see the news and the following them around the streets.
28:45And, you know, the players were aware.
28:48But I don't think they got particularly stressed about it.
28:51But it just, it heightened everything.
29:02Sven knew going into that final group game against Sweden that a draw would be enough
29:07for them to qualify as group winners.
29:13We knew we were through.
29:15But we wanted to win the group as well, which would give us an advantage.
29:20Rooney was starting.
29:22The combination with Michael Owen, you could see that really working.
29:27It felt as though this was the perfect time for them to be playing.
29:31Potentially for what would then be the knockout stages.
29:47The ball was put down the touchline and he ran after it and he twisted his knee.
29:59It looked suspiciously like a cruciate injury, an anti-acruciate ligament injury.
30:05You're looking at nine to ten months out.
30:09To see his face and you go over and it's heartbreak.
30:12Because, you know, for him, the tournament's over and it's probably going to be a year out.
30:17When you lose your best players, it is devastating to the team.
30:21Huge, huge blow.
30:25Michael had one or two injury doubts pre-tournament.
30:28But it was a huge blow to England and obviously a huge blow to him to have such a serious
30:33injury.
30:35But the show must go on.
30:37So how are we going to win the World Cup without him?
30:40Oh, it's a good turn by Frank Lampard.
30:42What you want is other players to step up.
30:45Beckham.
30:45The performance felt like it was growing.
30:48Carrigan takes on Edmund.
30:50Beckham again.
30:51Crouch waiting far post.
30:53Back across.
30:54Oh, and Lampard was closing in there in the six-yard box.
30:57It's come out to Joe Cole.
30:58I remember the ball coming down.
31:00I remember it dropping.
31:03And I just remember him looking up and then, boom.
31:06There's the volley.
31:08Oh, it's a terrific goal for England.
31:11And Joe Cole has scored it.
31:19It was a moment that you thought England have arrived.
31:25I thought, this is what we're about.
31:27This is what we can do.
31:28We've got these players that can actually play some great football.
31:31And we all went absolutely ballistic.
31:41Unquestionably England's best 45 minutes in the World Cup so far.
31:49Corner to be taken by Linderot.
31:51Luchic forward.
31:53So too is Mjellberg.
31:56Oh, and the head is in.
31:58Sweden have equalized.
32:02Coming in for the Sweden game, I didn't have a good game at all.
32:06And Gerrard comes to the line, and it's Rooney, who they obviously don't feel can last the 90.
32:14He was angry and threw me boots.
32:16We knew what he was capable of, and he couldn't get to that level because of the metatarsal injury.
32:22I remember a rising feeling of foreboding.
32:29Goodness, England are hanging on here.
32:32All faded away very, very quickly in the second half.
32:35It felt like a team that was struggling badly to find its best form.
32:41For England, nothing was like fluid.
32:44Nothing was like telepathic.
32:45Joe Cole, Gerrard is far side.
32:48He would have taken the lead again.
32:50Sven was a great man-manager, but tactically he was very rigid, very stringent.
32:55It would always be a four at the back and a variation of 4-4-2 or 4-4-1
32:59-1.
32:59I don't think we ever got that balance really right.
33:02I think we tried to get everybody into the team, and I probably would have done the same.
33:07In some games, that worked tremendously well.
33:09And in others, it would be a weakness.
33:13Edmund takes the throw.
33:15John Gerrard misses it.
33:16Oh, what a tangle! And it's in!
33:18It's 2-2!
33:20The management of Sven-Goran Eriksson became more and more under the spotlight.
33:28We were going to qualify top of the group, but Michael's injury added to the disquiet.
33:35Questions were being asked about selection.
33:39Sven, with hindsight, are you concerned that we don't have enough cover in the striking positions?
33:44I'm not that worried about that, because we have players like Joe Cole, we have Steven Gerrard, who can do
33:52it, and we have Walcott, who we haven't tried yet.
34:00Theo Walcott, just 17, he's never played in the Premiership, and now he's off to the World Cup.
34:08There was a little bit of romance about it, but I think more than anything, there was mystification.
34:15Theo Walcott, Arsenal, age 17, uncapped.
34:20His place was occupying a place that might have been better filled by somebody else.
34:26Among 23 players, why not take one gambling?
34:30I was doing the dual role, so I was a lead physiotherapist at Arsenal.
34:34He hadn't even played for Arsenal, so yeah, it was a surprise even to us.
34:40Theo probably coming in was a big surprise even to Theo.
34:43It was a strange decision, I think we all felt that.
34:47We'd try and get round him and help him and hope that, you know, he gets an opportunity he does
34:51well for us.
34:53He almost looked like he was on a school trip, he was so young.
34:58Theo's being picked for the future.
35:00He ain't going to define a game for us, I didn't think, at the time.
35:04If I want a goal, I'm picking Jermaine Defoe.
35:08With the injury to Michael Owen, if Jermaine Defoe had been there,
35:13that would have given England more cover up front.
35:16It was a big mistake by Spence.
35:18Thank you, everyone.
35:26For us, it was never about what was happening on the football pitch,
35:29it was about what was happening on the streets of Baden-Baden.
35:32And what was going on in Baden-Baden was much more interesting than what was going on on the pitch.
35:39The World Cup may not have been won yet, but in the glamour stakes, England's WAGs have emerged victorious.
35:45These women were wild.
35:47The WAGs have coined a new nickname, occupied acres of newsprint, and made Garibaldis internationally famous.
35:54Garibaldis.
35:55Garibaldis.
35:55Garibaldis.
35:56Garibaldis.
35:57This is one of the WAGs' favourite haunts.
36:00That was WAG HQ.
36:01On one night here, they spent 450 quid on a night out.
36:07It was a hen-do every night in Garibaldis.
36:09It was high spending, high drinking, high fun, WAGs, plus their friends and family.
36:16Champagne was being bought like I've never seen before and never seen since.
36:22Bye-bye.
36:23Thank you very much.
36:24Ciao.
36:39There was a turning point for the WAGs, and they went from a phenomenon that people just loved
36:45to love to hate, and they almost became pantomime figures.
36:55Some of them went out of control.
36:57There were some dancing on the table.
37:08I remember I spoke with Colleen and with Victoria.
37:12I tried to keep a little bit more low profile.
37:15Gaben get on, so yeah, but no problem.
37:20Maybe how the English press is, they manipulate something that could be disturbing for the
37:26purpose we were there.
37:28Ultimately, they were going for food and a few drinks.
37:31We very cleverly managed to get the bill, which we then printed in full in the next day's
37:35newspaper.
37:36And that got made into absolute mayhem.
37:40Because the England players weren't doing it on the pitch, there was an element of scapegoating.
37:50Suddenly, the WAGs became responsible for everything.
37:53I mean, you obviously got to see the paper headlines, and you kind of knew what was going
37:56on.
37:57There were certain lads that didn't enjoy what they were seeing.
38:00Players were getting annoyed by this media circus.
38:03Some people say to me, David, the problem is not the wives and girlfriends.
38:07The problem is the wives and girlfriends and the English media, that that's the problem.
38:14It became a circus for some people.
38:20About ten of us sports reporters were staying at Brenner's Park with the WAGs and their families,
38:25and we had a lot of good nights.
38:27But there were a lot of arguments as well.
38:30I remember Gary Neville's dad chanting, you're scum, and you know you are at the press.
38:36Neville Neville was pictured with a replica of the World Cup.
38:40I remember how angry Gary was about that.
38:45It was just an uncomfortable situation.
38:47The families have got to take a level of responsibility for their behaviour as well.
38:51You think, okay, that's happened once, that's happened twice.
38:55That's enough now.
38:56None of them can say, this was an intrusion, we shouldn't have been photographed.
39:01Otherwise, you didn't need to stay there the past two days.
39:04What do you do?
39:04Do you tell my wife to go home?
39:08Or does the jailers need to actually show some respect and behave in a decent way towards a young girl?
39:16There's no doubt that lines were crossed in the treatment of the WAGs,
39:19but I think they became of such phenomenal interest to the public.
39:23Everybody got carried away with themselves.
39:25The circus was all the circus, but what happened on the field was the key to it.
39:41A few customary wobbles along the way, but England made it through to the knockout stage.
39:46Already into the quarterfinals of the two former winners, Germany and Argentina,
39:50can England become the third by beating Ecuador?
39:53Obviously, you're going to the knockouts now, there's no second chances.
39:57Plenty of those star players, you're saying, it's now your time to shine,
40:01because you haven't got any other chance to do so,
40:03because if we get knocked out in the round of 16, it is over.
40:06If they're going to progress further, quarterfinals, semifinals,
40:09they've got it up on the line of performance, they've got it.
40:12England need a performance?
40:14Yes.
40:14Absolutely, yes.
40:15By their own admission, they do it.
40:17It was roasting, it was such a hot day, I always remember that.
40:23Paul Robinson kept launching the ball, don't feel they've chased the channels.
40:29If I did kick too many long balls, at least I didn't have to run after him.
40:34Knockout football is so different from the group, you can't afford to make any mistakes.
40:38It's quite a nervy game.
40:49It didn't feel as though it was a completely unified team.
40:55When the hard times came with an England shirt, man, it was like looking around like,
40:59there wasn't that togetherness.
41:01The bond wasn't as strong as with the club.
41:05So at halftime in Stuttgart, in the second round of the World Cup,
41:08it's England nil, Ecuador nil.
41:13Club rivalries were suspected at the time.
41:17The Premier League was very competitive, there were big rivalries.
41:21Rivalries were different back then, now the boys are everyone's hugging each other before games,
41:25back then you wouldn't have done that.
41:26I've got to be honest, man, there were fake relationships in the England squad.
41:31I'd be sitting there and I'd be chatting to Stevie, Frank, JT, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, all the guys.
41:39But it's surface level, everything.
41:42I grew up with Frank, we'd done everything together.
41:45We've run together from kids.
41:47He's the same and I'm the same.
41:49I can't give him anything that he can take back to Chelsea and use against me.
41:54It's very difficult to kick each other one week and then the next week be best of mates and an
41:59England squad.
41:59We perhaps didn't realise or understand the size of that when you're in it.
42:04I didn't see it.
42:06I've seen players having fun with each other, playing golf with each other, so I think it's overhyped.
42:11Big question now, can we get a second half performance out of England?
42:15Now, the teams that go and win, all you hear about is that it feels like a club.
42:19We're all pals, we're all mates.
42:21The Spain teams that won tournaments, the Brazil teams, the French teams, they were desperate to go to them squads.
42:30That weren't like us.
42:31I liked going with England.
42:33It meant I was going to represent my country.
42:35But there weren't enough beyond the 90 minutes that made me love being there.
42:40We had 11 top, top players, but did we have to compromise and swallow a little bit of the ego
42:46for the rest to blossom?
42:48You don't have to get on.
42:49You just have to respect.
42:51And they respected each other because they were all winners.
42:56Our team never won games.
42:58An individual won it.
43:00A moment.
43:03David Beckham has a free kick.
43:0625 yards.
43:11And Beckham!
43:13It's gone in!
43:14It's gone in!
43:15Eagle in front!
43:17Relief!
43:18David Beckham!
43:22Beck's free kick does what he does.
43:26Thank God we've got someone like that who can pull us through a game.
43:32But this is the golden generation.
43:35How are we feeling like that?
43:37And England are in the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the ninth time.
43:43That happened far too often with us.
43:45That's the problem.
43:47England took another step through the tournament, but it was a slightly hesitant, wavering one.
43:54That was a difficult game and one we've done well to come through.
43:58Definitely with the conditions.
44:00None of us were able to show vulnerability and go, guys, we're shit.
44:07We ain't good enough.
44:08What do we have to do, man?
44:13Everything we've done after a game felt like relief.
44:17It felt like, oh, that's one more game that we're not going to have to go back home and
44:22the towel's between our legs.
44:23It was just relief.
44:27At the time we were happy because we're getting the results.
44:29We think that's great.
44:30We're here for longer.
44:31But in reality, we weren't gliding through the tournament.
44:34Let's just put it that way.
44:35We weren't gliding through.
44:36We were stuttering.
44:45It was very peculiar at the time.
44:48Pictures of the WAGs adorn the papers every day.
44:50It was all very negative.
44:53And people had started to reassess their expectations of the team.
44:58But you don't ever quite stop believing, do you, when it's a World Cup?
45:02You think, well, they've only got to win three games and then they've won the World Cup.
45:05So there was still hope.
45:08With four days to go, football fervour has exploded.
45:11Not since the Jubilee has this green and pleasant land been quite so red and white.
45:18Churches in the region are offering the chance for communal viewing.
45:21In this case, alcohol free.
45:23Everybody passing in cars.
45:24They've got England flags on, they know them we're paid.
45:26We're back in England.
45:27We've got Crunchy Crouch, Tandoori Terry, Masala Beckham, Doe White Rooney and, last but
45:33least, Sweet Sven.
45:34So come on, England, do it for us, lads.
45:38We were in the quarterfinals, but there was also a recognition that we were going to have
45:43to get much nearer to our best if we were going to beat Portugal.
45:49Gelson-Kirchen station this morning, swarming with expectant England fans.
45:55David Beckham says England are relishing their quarterfinal contest against Portugal on Saturday.
46:00We've never, ever, ever seen England play bad and win, and it's happening now.
46:05The best teams win when they play bad.
46:07We're going all the way.
46:09Shirts already discarded.
46:12Hopefully not too much fingernail biting with England.
46:17We've got to the quarterfinals, not playing our best football, not impressing people by the sounds
46:21of things, but, you know, we're in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, let's have a bit of positivity
46:26and get behind the team.
46:28Oh, bring back, oh, bring back that World Cup for me, for me.
46:35Come on, England.
46:36Come on, you can do it!
46:42Sven, you've always said that in 2006, this squad would reach its peak.
46:47Has anything happened to change your mind?
46:50No, absolutely not.
46:52England faced Portugal.
46:55They had Figo.
46:56They had Cristiano Ronaldo.
46:57And they had Scolari, the coach.
47:01Sven Joran Eriksson and big Phil Scolari, they are huge rivals.
47:08You go back to 2002, Scolari's in charge of Brazil, and they knock England out of the World Cup.
47:15Fast forward to Euro 2004, he's then in charge of Portugal.
47:19And what happens?
47:20The quarterfinals come around, he knocks England out again.
47:23The FA had also secretly sounded him out to take over from Sven Joran Eriksson.
47:28Luis Felipe Scolari says he is not interested in taking over as England coach.
47:33The FA have lost the proven winner they wanted.
47:36There was an element of you can't beat and buy them, and he turned England down.
47:41There were so many subplots to this extraordinary drama.
47:51You were playing in a World Cup quarterfinal, it was a huge game.
47:58The National Anthem, you can feel each of the grip in one another and the togetherness.
48:04And you remember what you were like as a kid watching that.
48:10The overwhelming sense of pride.
48:13It was immense.
48:15And you do carry the weight of the nation on you.
48:21I just remember being so full of energy.
48:23I had to calm myself down.
48:25I really wanted to just explode.
48:29I mean, in our normal, subtle way, we absolutely hyped it up as Rooney versus Ronaldo.
48:34Manchester United teammates.
48:37Rooney, this embodiment of English hunger.
48:43And Ronaldo, this beautiful player to watch.
48:47One of the world's greats.
48:56Oh, there's a chance for Rooney here, but the mistake.
48:59It was an utterly absorbing game.
49:01Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal.
49:04Proper, proper heart-in-mouth stuff.
49:06Rooney shoots.
49:09It was certainly a very, very nerve-wracking time.
49:12I'm sure a lot of people were hiding behind pillows and cushions.
49:17I thought it was very even.
49:19Well, Beckham has tossed the captain's armband to Gary Neville.
49:23This was not in the script.
49:25The England captain is coming off injured after six minutes of the second half.
49:30He was somebody everybody put their trust in to Captain England to World Cup victory.
49:37And it felt like it had been one thing after another.
49:39And now the captain's gone.
49:41How are we going to win the World Cup without him?
49:42And then you looked at Rooney and you were waiting for something to happen.
49:46After Michael's injury, he was isolated.
49:49Frustrations had been building throughout the tournament.
49:52The fuse began to burn.
49:56Quite an even game, from what I remember.
49:59But there was that moment.
50:08Look at Rooney there, batting away.
50:11Ow.
50:18There's a bit of angst going on here.
50:20Portuguese players are pushing Rooney.
50:22Suddenly, a lot of the players start remonstrating with the referee.
50:26I would expect us to do the same.
50:28Ronaldo straight away was chirping at the referee to do something.
50:32The referee has gone to his pocket.
50:34He's right.
50:34He's sent Rooney off.
50:36To this day, even watching it, I actually don't know if I have meant to do it or not.
50:42It's a straight red.
50:44The words going around, I've heard he's kicked, you know, violent.
50:47You didn't really know why he got sent off.
50:50Was he yelling?
50:51The antics that went on after.
50:55For me, it was such a weird moment,
50:57sitting in the restroom after being sent off.
51:00Knowing my time was always regardless.
51:04We thought it was probably never really fully healed.
51:08Only looking back, now I could tell you shouldn't have went.
51:13What an amazing few minutes that was.
51:15David Beckham, the captain, off injured.
51:17Wayne Rooney, the mate striker, off on a red card.
51:23The wink.
51:26How do I be as polite as possible?
51:28I guess it's football.
51:29If you'd ask me would I have done the same to get him sent off,
51:32then I would have.
51:35My word, it's tense.
51:36Extra time in the World Cup quarterfinal.
51:39England with ten men were just fantastic.
51:41They just ran themselves into the ground.
51:44Stephen Gerrard.
51:45Leopard's there.
51:46Crouch is there.
51:48We had to step up.
51:50You know, I think I probably would have tried to run through a brick wall that day.
51:54Hargreaves gave one of the best performances I've ever seen in England's year.
51:59He's been everywhere.
52:00That boy's been absolutely fantastic.
52:02But the closer it gets to the game finishing, after our previous experiences of penalties,
52:08I think everybody gets a little bit nervous.
52:10Up until then, England had a terrible record with penalties.
52:13The whistle has gone at the end of extra time.
52:15The World Cup quarterfinal has gone to penalties.
52:20One of my German friends in the press box just turned around to me and went,
52:24I'm at Elfmeter.
52:25Always penalties with England.
52:27I started thinking about all the crowds back home.
52:29You know, all the fan parks, all the people in the pubs, how I used to be as a kid.
52:33Hargreaves, Hargreaves, Hargreaves, Hargreaves, Hargreaves.
52:47You have a responsibility for your team and for tens of millions of people watching the game back home.
52:53That walk from the middle of the pitch to where the penalty spot is,
52:56is one of the longest walks you'll ever take.
52:58It's understanding what the people will potentially think of.
53:00If I miss, I'll be on the front of the paper.
53:03But actually, my last thought was, I'm going to smash this into the corner,
53:07and then I'm going to go have a beer with my family.
53:11Oh, he got to that, the goalkeeper, but the power took it in.
53:14It is one-all.
53:17I'd watched videos of every single Portuguese player,
53:21every penalty that they've taken.
53:24This was my moment.
53:28Oh, it's missed!
53:32We were ahead.
53:34Gerrard steps up, and you think, all day long,
53:36Gerrard's going to put the ball in the back of the net.
53:44Oh, Ricardo saves!
53:51Here comes Carragher.
53:53Oh, no!
53:55The referee's ordered a retake.
53:56Because he hadn't waited for the referee's whistle,
53:59he's then asked to retake it.
54:01Oh, this is almost unbearable.
54:05Oh, Ricardo has kept that out as well!
54:09I don't believe it!
54:11It's Cristiano Ronaldo.
54:13What an irony.
54:16What a climax.
54:18Robinson! Robinson! Robinson!
54:21This for the semifinals for Portugal.
54:24It was made for Ronaldo.
54:33England, despite heroics,
54:35are out of the World Cup.
54:42Yeah, there you go.
54:44When you win a trophy is the greatest feeling ever.
54:49And the opposite of that is when you lose.
54:54It's just regret.
54:57The moment's gone.
54:59It fills me with, like, this huge disappointment,
55:01because we did have top players,
55:06but we were never in a position
55:08to be at the best versions of ourselves.
55:11It felt like we had all the pieces of the puzzle.
55:14We just never really put it together.
55:17Because I saw the end
55:19Before we'd begun
55:21Yes, I saw you again
55:23And I knew I had to
55:26David Beckham is coming into the room
55:27and he's looking very smart.
55:28He's in a suit ready to fly home.
55:31I learned just the night before
55:33Sven told me on the phone.
55:35I'd just like to say that I've got a brief statement.
55:38I saw David Beckham that day.
55:41We both were start crying.
55:43Having been captain for 58 of my 95 caps,
55:47I feel the time is right to pass on the armband
55:50as we enter in a new era under Steve McLaren.
55:54Beckham's announcement that you were standing there
55:56and felt symbolic.
55:57I've lived the dream.
55:58I am extremely proud to have worn the armband
56:03and been captain of England
56:05and for that I will always be grateful.
56:08Thank you very much.
56:09Goodbye, my lover
56:11Goodbye, my friend
56:13You have been the one
56:15You have been the one for me
56:31To win a World Cup
56:34You've got to be brilliant
56:35You've got to be really good
56:36Everything has to go right
56:37You have to have a great coach
56:38a great leader
56:39Each individual has to do their bit
56:41Everything off the pitch has to go right
56:43and on the pitch has to go right
56:45It's very, very difficult to win World Cups
56:49And to be honest
56:49if you can't react well
56:51to the public's expectations of you
56:54This is not a team
56:54that was going to win a World Cup anyway
57:03Italy won the World Cup of 2006
57:08The day after winning the final
57:10they arrived in Rome Airport
57:13Cannavaro brought the World Cup
57:15to cheering crowds
57:21What happened next?
57:23The wives and girlfriends
57:25of the Italian team
57:26came flooding off the plane
57:29The Italian wife and girlfriend
57:31that were there
57:31but in Italian papers
57:33nobody were talking
57:34Blaming the wives and girlfriends
57:36is like blaming the weather
57:38It is a complete nonsense
57:44It was definitely a distraction
57:46the wags
57:46I think all the players
57:47would admit that
57:50Was it some tactical elements?
57:53Yes
57:53Was it the players?
57:55Yeah
57:57Ultimately
57:58We fell short
58:01There were cracks with England
58:02The rivalries
58:04definitely played a big part
58:06in taking us out of the running
58:07to win
58:09In our eternal search
58:10In our eternal search for reasons
58:12why we failed
58:13That's got to be near the top of the list
58:17It just makes me feel sad
58:18because it was a golden generation
58:20It just summed up a legacy of what could have been
58:24what should have been
58:25and a massive disappointment for Sven
58:27I felt more for Sven
58:29because things happened
58:30which were out of his control
58:33I interviewed Victoria Beckham recently
58:36and we actually reminisced about Barden Barden
58:38and she just said that was my attention-seeking era
58:41I buried those boobs in Barden Barden
58:452006 Barden Barden was the closing party for culture
58:49at that point
58:51it will never be repeated
58:55I personally look back on it as a missed opportunity
58:58We were all weaker
58:59with England shirts on our back
59:02and we'd never have told you that at the time
59:04the injury to David Beckham
59:06the red card for Wayne Rooney
59:07the injury for Mike Lowen
59:09you know that's a lot to ask for any team
59:11to overcome in eternal
59:14Golden generation or whatever you want to call us
59:17we were a group of men
59:18trying to be successful for our country
59:20and ultimately fell short
59:43the situation
59:43the enemy
59:44is
59:44What should you do?
59:47is